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Re: New GitHub Logo

#61

Post by markdotto »

philipwalton wrote: post #54
dangrossman wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They built the page with Bootstrap. Almost all the CSS classes are provided by it. What's wrong with that?

I wasn't suggesting anything's wrong with it. Certainly the creator of Bootstrap has liberty to copy himself. I guess I'm just a little surprised he didn't want to showcase his variety.

Meh, I'm usually not one for variety :).

The purple space background was designed by an illustrator here at GitHub and I just put it to use. That the page ended up being purple and blue like Bootstrap is kind of just a coincidence. Previously the Enterprise site's background was a custom-made OS X ish space background—lots of blue and gold.

Beyond that I don't see a huge concern of the two looking similar. Bootstrap 3's homepage will be massively different from v2s today if it helps though.

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by petepete »

jlgreco wrote: post #49
ctdonath wrote: post #46

What's the story behind Octocat? That...thing...doesn't really do much for me as far as a corporate logo goes. Rather complex shape (see references to scaling problems), sorta catish but not, WTH is that weird tail (cat, four legs and a...), this post is the first reference to "octo" I've seen in the months I've used the service, there's 5 limbs not 8, etc. Makes me think of a little kid in a Halloween costume. "Gith…

It was a stock image apparently. Here are a bunch of the others: http://octodex.github.com/ I've always figured it fits because: 1) The internet likes cats. 2) Git can do octopus merges I guess?

Ah, thanks for that - I didn't realise they were stock images.

The Github for Android logo is amongst those too http://octodex.github.com/droidtocat/

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by Oompa »

lasome wrote: post #8

I'd really like to hear their thoughts around the capitalization of GitHub. Everyone who uses git interacts it with it in downcase. To see it upcased like that is unfamiliar.

GitHub has always been capital G capital H. The logo just did not communicate it

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by staunch »

It probably feels to them like GitHub is so well known that the company needs to be called that. I think they're actually early enough on that they could just make it one of their products.

      SocialCoding, Inc.
        /     |     \
     GitHub  ???    ???

Re: New GitHub Logo

#65

Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

staunch wrote: post #64

It probably feels to them like GitHub is so well known that the company needs to be called that. I think they're actually early enough on that they could just make it one of their products. SocialCoding, Inc. / | \ GitHub ??? ???

I'd prefer:

   OctoCat Enterprises, Inc.
          /     |    \
       GitHub  ???   ???

Re: New GitHub Logo

#66

Post by lifeisstillgood »

tptacek wrote: post #34
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #28

oh dear. I may be reading too much between the lines, but thy post, and the logo-page, are corporate, goal driven projects (maybe top down) that are then wrapped up in nice fluffy words. Its not the same as nice fluffy ideas, getting thrown out and tested, with maybe as much attention from lawyers as aspell. Of course it happens, but this is the time github went from that nice sparky startup, to the long slide into c…

Uh, what? Github is still run by its founding team. They're big because they sell something that is extremely awesome compared to the market substitutes. The good guys don't always win, but they did this time. Spare us the anti-corp agita.

They are stretching past the ability of a founding team to be intimate with everything - which in many many ways is fantastic - top 1% of startups only.

But I read an outsourced rebranding that came in nicely wrapped up, even with legalese in appendix A. And then octo-goodness sprinkled on top. This does not feel like a move and an announcement with GitHub DNA at is heart. It feels added on. Done well, but my antennae twitched.

The move from scrappy startup to 100m in funding is fantastic - real poster-boy stuff. But losing your identity in that move, what makes that team great, is so common it should have a name.

I want Preston-Warner et al to succeed. I want them to leap the chasm into a functioning corporate body that does whatever they have planned. But this one feels like the huge difficulties in running a fast growing high profile company might just be stretching them. I don't know - all I have are inferences and hunches. Maybe they have time each day to think and ruminate on what GitHub needs to become, have time for creativity. Or maybe they run from one to another meeting exhausted at days end. Who knows.

But like I said, if they even read this, they can wipe the tears away with bunches of Benjamin's. good for them, good luck. Think of it commenting on growing pains, not diagnosing terminal cancer

Anti-corp agita? I used to take over the college buildings in student protests, then sit up all night arguing market driven solutions beat socialism everytime.

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by [deleted] »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #65
staunch wrote: post #64

It probably feels to them like GitHub is so well known that the company needs to be called that. I think they're actually early enough on that they could just make it one of their products. SocialCoding, Inc. / | \ GitHub ??? ???

I'd prefer: OctoCat Enterprises, Inc. / | \ GitHub ??? ???

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Re: New GitHub Logo

#68

Post by Samuel_Michon »

ben_straub wrote: post #53
Samuel_Michon wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s probably a tweaked version of Secca Extra Bold or Botanika Bold. Compare and contrast: http://imgur.com/hdcz2Sd (Top: Botanika, middle: GitHub, bottom: Secca)

It's Apex Sans: http://vllg.com/Constellation/Apex_Sans

So it is! I see that it was tweaked quite heavily; rounded corners on all the glyphs, altered ‘G’, ‘i’, and ‘t’, different weight, etc.

Comparison: http://imgur.com/ggI204m

Were you involved in the design process? How was Apex selected? It’s not a particularly well-known font and it’s for sale at very few places.

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by ricardobeat »

jlgreco wrote: post #49
ctdonath wrote: post #46

What's the story behind Octocat? That...thing...doesn't really do much for me as far as a corporate logo goes. Rather complex shape (see references to scaling problems), sorta catish but not, WTH is that weird tail (cat, four legs and a...), this post is the first reference to "octo" I've seen in the months I've used the service, there's 5 limbs not 8, etc. Makes me think of a little kid in a Halloween costume. "Gith…

It was a stock image apparently. Here are a bunch of the others: http://octodex.github.com/ I've always figured it fits because: 1) The internet likes cats. 2) Git can do octopus merges I guess?

http://www.idokungfoo.com/ is the original illustrator, he sells artwork on istockphoto.com.
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